Good morning friends. There are times in our life that we have a hard time to accept everything even with some changes. Yes, I agree with that, it’s not easy to learn to accept what we can’t change. As intellectually evolved beings, we constantly analyze all events and endeavor to identify the underlying likely cause. This obsession for a cause extends even to actions or events of a past birth.
It compels us to look into outer space and implicate the movement of celestial bodies like stars and planets to serve as plausible causes.
Science has, to a large extent, been able to explain physical phenomena. But finding a cause for every mundane facile event might be taking things a bit too far. When the cause of suffering is diagnosed to be a person, it leaves one with a sense of victimhood. And along with it come anguish, resentment and a deep desire for retribution. This process continues unabated and over time becomes a stockpile of hate.
The feeling of hate, initially restricted to the individual, tends to be highly contageous and one day it could acquire epidemic proportions. All violence, racial discord and inter-personal strife are just manifestations of this perceived ‘victimization’ that is derived from our obsession to somehow fix the blame.
Can our intellect be diverted towards fixing the problem? Can we, at the apex of the evolutionary pyramid, be redeemed from the curse of this blame game? Can’t we accept events as just a pattern emerging in the kaleidoscope of life, the pattern which has no bias or machinations towards any individual being? In reacting lies a sense of insecurity, a sense of threat perception and inevitably a sense of being a victim of conspiracy. This approach only leads to further suffering. Constant threat perception is the genesis of insecurity. Over a period this induces metabolic changes in the body leading to a host of ailments. - DEEPAK RANADE
The writer is a neurosurgeon. E-mail deepakranade@hotmail.com
